Article 86-18Transportation of Necessary Goods for Emergency Disaster Control Measures
第八十六条の十八（災害応急対策必要物資の運送）
When found urgently necessary for implementing emergency disaster control measures, the head of the designated administrative organ and the head of the designated local administrative organ may request the designated public corporations that are transportation business operators, and the prefectural governor may request the designated public corporations or the designated local public corporations that are transportation business operators, to transport necessary goods and materials (referred to as "necessary goods for emergency disaster control measures" in the following paragraph) for implementing the emergency disaster control measures by specifying goods or materials to be transported, and the place and period for transportation.
When the designated public corporations or the designated local public corporations do not meet the request under the preceding paragraph without any just cause, the head of the designated administrative organ, the head of the designated local administrative organ, or the prefectural governor may instruct the designated public corporations or designated local public corporations to transport necessary goods for emergency disaster control measures only when found particularly necessary for implementing emergency disaster control measures. In this case, the matters of the same paragraph must be specified in writing.
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designated administrative organs
「指定行政機関」
The national administrative organs the Prime Minister designates from among the Cabinet Office (内閣府), the Imperial Household Agency, the Digital Agency, the Disaster Management Agency, the ministries, commissions and agencies, and the councils, facilities, special organs and other bodies set up under them.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iii)· applies throughout the law
designated local administrative organs
「指定地方行政機関」
The local branch offices of designated administrative organs, and other local administrative organs of the State, that the Prime Minister designates.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (iv)· applies throughout the law
designated public corporations
「指定公共機関」
Incorporated administrative agencies, the Bank of Japan, the Japanese Red Cross Society, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) and other public institutions, and corporations running public utilities such as electricity, gas, transport and telecommunications, that the Prime Minister designates.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (v)· applies throughout the law
designated local public corporations
「指定地方公共機関」
Local incorporated administrative agencies, port authorities, land improvement districts and other managers of public facilities, and corporations running public utilities such as electricity, gas, transport and telecommunications in a prefecture, that the governor of that prefecture designates.
Defined inArticle 2, paragraph (1), item (vi)· applies throughout the law
necessary goods for emergency disaster control measures
「災害応急対策必要物資」
In Article 86-18, the goods or materials needed to carry out emergency disaster control measures, whose transport the head of a designated administrative organ or designated local administrative organ or a prefectural governor may ask a transport operator that is a designated public corporation or designated local public corporation to undertake.
Short name set inArticle 86-18, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 86-18, paragraph (2)